I bowled my first week of the new season. 

A little information about the house

The house is an extremely old house with wood lanes.  The rumors are that the lanes are not able to be stripped anymore! As the game progresses the lanes break down and you will get very little (if any) carry down.  So most moves for me are further up on the approach or a huge jump to the left. A lot of the bowlers play all over these lanes, deep inside, tight inside, track shot, up 7, or 3 dot to bump the gutter.

How I bowled 

 202,209, 168.  My only opens in the first two games were splits (1st game split in the tenth) that I deserved to get because I either pulled my arm or came out the ball wrong.  I was using my AMF Changeling.  The first game I was playing straight up the 7th board.  As the lanes began to break down, I moved up on the approach and was able to get my ball further down the lanes. 

In the second game the lanes are continuing to break down so I had to move 5 boards to the left and sent my ball over the forth dot to around the second arrow (let it drift one or two boards pass it).  I was doing good the first half of the game, but could not strike after the sixth frame. On the right lane I didn't keep my speed up so the ball hit high.  On the left lane I played the same line with speed and my ball jumped.  So when I came back to the right lane I moved my feet two boards to the left and shot the same target.  But the two lanes were not the same and my ball hit extremely light.  Some people have a rule if one lane changes the other lane changes as well.  This is NOT always the case in wood houses.  I'm sure it's not the same on synthetic houses either because I have bowled games when I needed to use a different ball for each lane . So the last ball in the tenth (had a spare), I moved to the middle of the approach and aimed between the third and second arrow.  It looked like a good shot but I left the ten pin so my angle was off.

The third game I was totally lost.  Don't know what happened to me.  I just remember looking up and seeing that I was going into the 10th frame and the highest I could get is 178!  I believe I should have either jumped 10 boards left and played inside (going over middle arrow) or switch balls (Duh). I'm going to go practice Sunday in a wood house.  I need to practice dealing with the breakdown. 

 My team stuck me 3 times Agh. I'm glad we weren't playing quarters!

Oh yeah.  We won all the points (7 points -2 points per game and 1 for series) and I made all my 10 pins (3).